Arpad OkayĬartoonist Tyler Boss ’s solo debut was almost one of the best comics of 2020. This year saw some great mainstream ongoing manga series, some truly sublime translations of older books, and then there’s Dai Dark, genre-defying and genre-defining, delightful, deviated, just generally bonkers. Making instant ramen at haunted asteroid hotel! Instead of being a joke, the story of a nigh-invulnerable space-faring bone collector (collected by way of axe murder) and his best friend, living rucksack, is charming, it’s hardcore, it’s funny. Nails the dingus-has-unbelievable-power genre (the secret is it’s earnest), does that ineffable ‘ Simon Roy Griz Grobus I don’t know Jack Vance vestiges of society in an incomprehensibly distant future’ thing, the institutions remain but the creatures keeping them in place stopped resembling humanity a long, long time ago genre, Dai Dark is dedicatedly dada sci-fi concepts done deadpan. Looney Tunes, but make it look like Barlowe’s Guide (or HR Giger ). The violence is cartoonish, but so are the characters and the situations they find themselves in. Gloriously bizarre, unhinged, a four on the floor joy to read if you can find Q Hayashida ’s Dai Dark, to grip is a must. Q Hayashida (writer, artist), Daniel Komen (translator), Casey Lucas (adaptation), Phil Christie (letterer) Seven Seas Entertainment Copra #42 will be released from Michel Fiffe’s shop soon, and the newly released Copra Round Six has everything for new and returning readers need to get caught up on the story before #42 comes out. And what a year it was for Copra ! The Ochizon Saga, long built up, finally arrived and was completed. After a brief stint at Image Comics, Fiffe returned to self-publishing single issues of this perennial The Beat Best of Any and Every Year series. It makes sense that it’s her grandmother, not her father, who tells her what it was like hearing them as a teen.2021 was a big year for Michel Fiffe’s Copra.
But their heyday was over fifty, almost sixty years ago.
(Older readers may find themselves dismayed that Lucy has to have it explained to her how to play a record and who the Beatles were. The thin-line style is approachable with a slightly European feel that suits the subject matter. That makes this a rich read to sink into. It’s a thick, dense book with a lot happening, and yet there’s space for moments and reaction and the details of everyday life. The many small panels are well-suited to the conversational, down-to-earth story. Even that is bittersweet, though, as eventually she’ll have heard it all. When things are difficult, there’s always the music. As the story continues, she learns more about her family’s history, coming to see her parents and grandmother as people, not just relatives. Lucy is not interested in romance, but she does want her lonely father to reach out.
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